No end in sight- Comcast/Versus dispute still unresolved
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Bill Jempty | Tuesday, February 23, 2010 |
A game between two top 15 schools is scheduled to be broadcast on Versus this Saturday. From KRQE-
Saturday’s game between the New Mexico Lobos and the BYU Cougars may be the biggest game of the season and an estimated 1/3 of Albuquerque TV viewers will not be able to see it.
The No. 10/12 ranked Lobos are heading for a huge showdown Saturday in Provo, Utah against No. 13/11 BYU.
The regular season conference championship will most likely be on the line.
But, because the game will air on the Versus network, DirectTV subscribers will not be able to see it.
A money dispute between Versus and DirectTV has kept Versus off DirectTV.
On their network, DirectTV claims the parent company of Versus, Comcast, is asking too much money to carry the network on DirectTV. As a result, DirectTV does not carry Versus.
The Mountain West Conference’s tournament championship is scheduled to be broadcast on Versus next month.
I sympathize with Mountain West sports fans. This dumb dispute has dragged on far too long and NHL fans are about to get screwed even more than they have already been up to now. The playoffs are less than two months away and some of those games are carried exclusively by Versus.
The NHL’s decision to sit on its hands is mind boggling to me. The league doesn’t have a big United States fan base. Marginal fans are going to find something else to watch and perhaps permanently. Is Commissioner Gary Bettman too dumb to realize that or does he simply not care?
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